{"id":3401,"date":"2012-12-28T11:46:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2012-12-28T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T19:34:02","slug":"claude-monet-ice-floes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greynotgrey.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/28\/claude-monet-ice-floes\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Monet – Ice Floes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It looks like we’re getting a good start to winter here in Montreal, with a record snowfall yesterday of 45 centimetres – when you factor in the snowdrifts, that’s a pretty impressive one-off, the snow was up to mid-thigh in the alley behind where I live. Now, it’s no winter of 1892 but hey, we make do.<\/p>\n

\"Ice<\/a>

Ice Floes –\u00a0Claude Monet<\/p><\/div>\n

The prolonged freeze and heavy snowfalls in the winter of 1892\u201393 inspired Monet to capture their effects on the Seine in a series of paintings for which he chose a vantage point not far from his home in Giverny. The river had frozen in mid-January but began to thaw on the 23rd; the following day, in a letter to his dealer, Durand-Ruel, Monet lamented that “the thaw came too soon for me . . . the results\u2014just four or five canvases and they are far from complete.” By the end of February, however, he had finished more than a dozen paintings, including this view of the melting ice floes.
\n– the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, Montreal did break the record yesterday for the most snow in a single storm (or for the entire month of December for that matter) as far back as anyone’s been keeping track, so I guess it was more snowy than 1892. \u00a0No sign of Claude Monet, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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